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University Daily Kansan
Thursday, Nov. 8, 1956
'Nervousness Is An Enemy In An Interview'
It is important to know how to be interviewed especially to the hundreds of graduating University students who will be interviewed this year by representatives of business firms for prospective employment.
In offering tips to students on how to prepare for interviews, Denmar A. Cope, assistant professor of business administration and director of the Business Placement Bureau, said that one of the greatest enemies of the interviewee is nervousness.
So far this year, 140 companies have been scheduled by the Business Placement Bureau to interview KU students. During the fall and spring semesters last year, 1,532 interviews by 151 company representatives were conducted in the Business Placement Bureau intieview chambers. Countless other interviews were held in schools and departments throughout the campus.
Looking For Executives
"Companies are usually looking for potential executives, and within a 20 to 30-minute interview, they must seize upon everything by which they can judge the student," Prof. Cope said. Nervousness is one of these things.
"One way for a student to avoid nervousness is by getting a decent night's sleep before the interview. When he is rested and alert he will not be embarrassed by failing to respond to a question right away," Prof. Cope said.
He said that if the student is to feel comfortable during the interview, he should be dressed properly for the occasion. He should appear as he would expect to be dressed in the business world. A suit is preferred to sport clothes.
Know About Firm
The student may also avoid nervousness by knowing something about the interviewer's firm beforehand, so that he will not ask unnecessary or embarrassing questions.
The Business Placement Bureau has literature on nearly all companies which the student may study.
Prof. Cope said that studying literature on companies also helps the student to decide whether he really wants to work for a certain firm.
"In addition, it is always impressive to a company representative to find that a student has taken the initiative to find out about them before he came in."
Know What To Expect
Some nervousness can be invoiced by knowing what to expect at an interview. Prof. Cope said. This can be done by talking with other students who have had interviews or by going through one or two interviews for experience before the one that is really important.
"If a student become nervous during an interview, he should confess his nervousness to the interviewer," Prof. Cope said.
"The fact that you admit your nervousness relaxes you. To try to hide it is disastrous."
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Official Bulletin
TODAY
SUA Chess Club, 7:30 p.m., Card Room,
Student, Union.
Poetry Hour, 4 p.m. Music and Browsing Room, Student Union. Miss Barbara Craig will read poetry of Ronsard and others of the Pleaside group.
Der deutsche Verein trifft sich um 5 Uhr Donnerstag in 402 Faser. Mr. Benning will discuss Political Problems in Germany and West. Alle sind berhellig eingelaget
KU-Y Advisory Board meeting, 8 p.m.
Oread Room.
Collegiate Council for United Nations, 7 p.m., Activities Lounge. Student Union. Important business meeting. Election of officers.
Red Pepper meeting, 5 p.m., North College, living room.
Christian Science organization meeting, 7:30 p.m., Danforth Chapel. All students, faculty members and friends of the University are invited.
FRIDAY
Sociology Club. 4 p.m., Room 17,
Strong Annex E. Speaker: Albert Ravenholt.
AUFS."Mainland China's Population Growth—Do the Communists "Have a Tiger by the Tall?" Everyone welcome. Coffee.
museum of Art record concert, 11 a.m.
La Vida Breve (the complete opera).
SUNDAY
Lutheran Student Assn., coffee hour,
10:30 a.m., Trinity Lutheran Church.
Cost supper, 5:30 p.m. Speaker: Grant
Gilbert, intern. "Art-What It
Is, and Why It Is."
Museum of Art record concert. 2 p.m.
Gorinov (the complete opera).
DSF (Christian Church Students) fellowship cost supper. 5:30 p.m., Myers Hall. All Christian preference students urged to attend this meeting.
Wesley Grass, 6:30 p.m. Student Center lounge. Squeeze the King, "Work- in"- space.
Newman Club, 7 p.m. Basement of the church. Discuss. Attend to attend. Refreshments: to attend.
Graduate Club meeting. 8 p.m. Henco
Alden, 113 S. Irma Plaza, "University Life in India."
MONDAY
TUESDAY
Mathematical Colloquium. 4 p.m., 203 Strong Hall, Prof. D. B. Sears, of Uni-
iversity of Chicago. 5 p.m., 108 Spectral Theorem for the Ordinary Second Order Linear Differential Operator."
Undergraduate Psychology Club. 7:30 p.m. Parlor C, Student Union, Speaker: Dr. John L. Michael. "Psychotics and Vending Machines: A New Approach to the Study of Schizophrenia. Public welcome.
A pep rally, highlighted by talks from Charles Mather, head football coach, and Charles McCue, Irving, Tex. junior and starting right half-back on the varsity football squad, will be in front of Strong Hall at 9:45 a. m. Friday.
Pep Rally Set For Friday Morning
BILL Breyfogel, Olathe senior and KuKu Club president, said that ticket orders for the Missouri football game must be in by Monday.
A carry-in supper is a feature of the Mariner's Club meeting at 6 p.m. today at Westminster House, 1221 Oread. Following the supper, Mrs. John Patton, group adviser, will speak on "The Plus Quality in the Home."
Mariner's Club To Meet
Trip Abroad Takes Prof 60,000 Miles
Prof. Ireland's trip was made possible by a Fulbright lectorship to teach geology at the University of Baghdad, Iraq. Prof. and Mrs. Ireland left Lawrence in June and traveled in Europe for three months before arriving at the University of Baghdad.
"It's a trip beyond one's dream," H. A. Ireland, professor of geology, said after spending a year in the Middle East.
A special desert bus took Prof. Ireland and his wife across the desert to Iraq from Beirut, Lebanon. The bus is called a Pullman, Prof. Ireland said, but it has bucket seats inside a steel frame and is covered with canvas. The bus is not a sleeper, although the 20-hour trip was made mainly at night to avoid the heat, he said.
Rice is the principle cereal and bread is made from wheat, rye, and barley.
Paper-Thin Bread
"One type of bread is called samoun (sah-moon). It is white bread, like soft rolls. Another kind is xuzeb (hgbiz) and is rolled paper-thin and cooked a minute in a pre-heated clay receptacle.
"A bed of coals is in the bottom and the dough is cooked on top. The flour is unbleached, and the xubez is flexible. They wrap a vegetable or meat inside and roll it up," Prof. Ireland said.
A mixture of lamb, herbs, and roast rice is called shish-khab and Prof. Ireland said it is a delicious dish.
"No one can get a visa into Saudi Arabia without an invitation. It was one of the most unique experiences I ever had." Prof. Ireland said. "We landed after 600 or 700 miles of flight where they were drilling a well.
One of several side trips was a flight into the middle of the Saudi Arabian desert that lasted five days. It was made possible at the invitation of the Arabian-American Oil Co.
"Air conditioned trailers were circled against the wind, much like the pioneers of old days," Prof. Ireland said. He explained that one trailer was a sleeper which had 12 bunks and another trailer was a geology project office with short-wave radio equipment.
Air-Conditioned Diner
"They even had an air-conditioned dinner and cooked with bottled gas," he said, smiling contentedly. "There were refrigerators, and another trailer was used as a machine shop."
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Still another trailer supplied power for the "desert city."
"We even had a picture show, complete with Cokes and popcorn," Prof. Ireland said. "Food was out all the time because men work 24 hours a day."
When school was out at the University, Prof. Ireland spent three months in Europe and sailed to the United States from Cannes, France. The little French car, the Simca he had purchased in Paris, was sold in Cannes. Prof. Ireland picked up a new car in New York that he had bought in Damascus.
"We traveled just under 60,000 miles," Prof. Ireland concluded.
Sasnak Will Hold Dance
Sasnak, a club for physical education majors and minors, will hold a square dance in Robinson Gymnasium at 7:30 p. m. Wednesday.
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